Since this morning my Nexus s has been acting up. I was tethering to my Transformer Prime because I was at work and we have no WIFI here. The phone was plugged. after a few minutes I realized that I had lost internet connection on my prime. Wifi link was still working. I checked my phone, I had no signal whatsoever when normally I have full bars here.
I shutdown the phone in hope a reboot would make the problem disappear. Press power. Nothing. Press power again, nothing. Pull battery, try all the possible button combinations, still nothing. Charger plugged in, did not rebooted my phone either. Bought a new battery. Phone rebooted again.
Since then, battery status is weird. The phone does not show when it is being charge. Battery level is moving up and down without reason. The phone is going into Airplane mode randomly.
I did a factory reset, Dalvik reset, Cache reset. still the same problems appears. Reflashed Stock firmware, still the same issues.
I don't know what to do anymore. Please help me!
Charge battery fully and do a battery stats wipe, then unplug it and let the phone die before recharging, will probably fix the battery if it's not a hardware issue.
Do you still get no signal?
It's hardware related, i can't charge, or don't know if it does. Tried to wipe battery stats earlier but nothing happened
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Hey all,
My wife and I both have Nexus S phones bought together sometime in Jan. Both phones are running stock Android 2.3.2, no rooting or anything done yet.
Right now her phone is behaving weirdly, while mine is perfectly normal. I suspect that her battery is messed up somehow, but I can't figure out what to do.
For the last day or so, when her phone hits <15% battery, the low battery warning pop-up appears.. and just keeps reappearing. No matter how many times the pop-up is acknowledged, the pop-up just does *not* go away until we connect the phone to a charger. Sort of an aggressive warning
This means that the phone won't let itself be put to sleep, keep the screen turned off or anything -- unless we connect the phone to a charger. I feel as though the battery is charging slowly, but I can't be sure.
Another weird thing we're just noticing is that when we lock the phone by pressing the power button, the screen goes off and comes back on immediately. We have to press the power button a second time for it to actually switch off the display. This behavior goes away if the phone is connected to the charger. My phone does not show this behaviour - display goes off the moment I press the power button, regardless of charging status.
Any thoughts?
Alternatively, could anyone point me to how to recalibrate the battery on the Nexus S? We removed the battery and put it back in (which is basically a soft reset apparently) and now it seems as though the battery has lost calibration or something. Have not done a hard reset yet -- should I go ahead and try that too?
Thoughts/help much appreciated. This is very worrisome!
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Another weird thing we're just noticing is that when we lock the phone by pressing the power button, the screen goes off and comes back on immediately. We have to press the power button a second time for it to actually switch off the display.
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Sounds like it has a glitch in the software. Try wiping everything. Go into settings, unmount the USB memory, erase the USB memory, then do a factory reset. That will reload the firmware back into active memory for the phone and wipe anything out of the USB memory that might be causing this issue. I usually do a factory reset with a new phone after I play with it for a while anyway, and it doesn't hurt the phone at all. You simply lose your texts, contacts, photos, etc. Just copy or backup anything you need to keep and wipe it clean.
If that doesn't fix it, then you need to get it replaced.
Alternatively, could anyone point me to how to recalibrate the battery on the Nexus S?
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Once you do a factory reset, turn off the phone and fully charge it using the supplied AC charger (don't use the computer port to charge), unplug it and wait a minute then re-connect the charger again for another hour, unplug it, turn on the phone and start using it.
Let us know if the reset fixes the issue.
I was hoping to get away without a factory reset, but I guess we have no choice. Will give it a shot later today, and let you know how it goes. Thanks.
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I was hoping to get away without a factory reset, but I guess we have no choice. Will give it a shot later today, and let you know how it goes. Thanks.
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Well a factory reset is a lot easier and faster than a return/exchange and accomplishes the same thing.
A new symptom has just surfaced -- right now, when my wife tries to lock the phone, it locks the screen but won't switch off the display. No matter how many times the phone is restarted, or the lock button is pressed, the display never actually goes off (timeout has been varied from 15 secs to 1 minute, to no avail). Phone was completely charged as of today morning, so its not popping any low battery warnings.. just not switching off display.
It definitely seems like a battery/software glitch of some kind. We've not done the factory reset yet (she's at work, and this just started happening). Just thought I'd keep the thread updated.
I went ahead and factory reset the phone, as well as manually installed the 2.3.3 update. Figured between the system reset and the update, something should get fixed
Restoring settings was relatively painless (love how everything just gets set up the way it was due to backing up everything with Google). We have the phone charging now (overnight), will update again tomorrow morning once its full charged and my wife is using it as normal.
Fixed?
Hey @satishev
I have the exact same problem, did yours get fixed?
thanks
Hey crobbie, sorry I forgot to update the thread.
After factory reset and update to 2.3.3, the phone has been working normally (so far). All issues related to battery/display are gone! Looks like it was some kind of software glitch that was causing it to read battery state incorrectly (Another symptom I had noticed was that on alarm/dock mode it would keep flashing a charging icon, despite no charger being connected). Initially after reset, the battery usage was acting wonky, but that worked itself out and everything is showing what I expect.
If interested, a blog post summarizing process/ZIPs for all updates to date can be found here.
Thanks, bfksc for all your help
So there is another thread sort of like this a bit below this one, but it's not quite the same situation, so I figured I'd make my own thread. My gf's tf101 has been working fine for the last couple of months, and then a couple of days ago, she found that as soon as she unplugged the tablet, it would shut off instantly. Once it's plugged back into the charger, it will boot and work fine. But, it will only work at all when plugged into the charger. When removed, no matter how long you hold the power button down, it won't turn on. I tried plugging it into the computer, and when I press the power button, it will flash the boot screen for about half a second, and then dies again. Keeps doing that, and will not stay on. Any suggestions, before an RMA? Anything to try?
Thanks.
What is the battery level showing when it is plugged in and on? Also check it with the Dual Battery Widget to see what that reports for battery charge/
I would back up all the data and apps, back up any important files and try a factory data reset. If that does not help, I would send it in for repair.
Ok, I was thinking about trying a factory reset next. The tablet shows 99% battery life left.
Hi everybody,
I was on twrp f2fs mode 2,7
Last time i used cromi-kk f2fs internal
I installed over cromi-kk a cromi-x 5.4 with hunds extreme tweaks data2sd
Tottaly forgot to reinstal normal twrp reformat internal memory.. So i had that screen encryption failed,
I restarted my tablet to fastboot, and it hang up, after like 5s turned off automaticly, and since then stopped working.
I plugged in to charge and went to sleep ( for about 6h). Battery indicator was green when i waked up. tried to turn on unplugged, no reaction, tried to keep it 5 - 10 - 30 - 60 - much more seconds, no reaction.
Then with volume button and power, no luck, tried reset still nothing. (no vibrations, no nothing, just dead)
I tried connect to a pc, pc doesnt find tablet
Any ideas, please help
So i was playing around some time with my tab again. Tried to do stuff, still no luck, possibly i bricekd or i fried the motherboard ? Before 6 hours i left to charge and still is red light (charging indicator).
May somebody help me ?
Should i try to discharge somehow ( i do not know how, maybe by pressing power button, and stuff)
Or should i try to charge like for day or two to wait, maybe it will turn back on in twrp or fastboot at least ?
Latest news so far, i charged the dock, then i connected with tab, and puted in charge with charger, so there was a while ( for about 16 hours) and the light on the tab is till red, no reactions still.. So what should i do, maybe somebody knows some tricks or anything at all. Charger works fine.
Have you tried a hard reset? Little hole near the SD card, insert a pin or small paperclip, there is a button inside that will force a reset when the external buttons don't work.
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Latest news so far, i charged the dock, then i connected with tab, and puted in charge with charger, so there was a while ( for about 16 hours) and the light on the tab is till red, no reactions still.. So what should i do, maybe somebody knows some tricks or anything at all. Charger works fine.
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You said early that you fully charged the tab (green light); then you said it later went red. How did this happen when you couldn't turn the tab on? If either the battery or the charging circuit is dead, then the tab won't get any juice. But how did the battery discharge itself from full to nothing without anything drawing a current?
i have got no idea, what happend, but today, my tablet, after some i think "coma" state turned on. after some game with twrp, i am able to use cromi-x 5.4 again.
Before person asked, and i will reply yes i tried hard reset button, i tried every single holes and buttons, hdmi and so on.
It just came back to life. (plus charging is fine, because my dock charged up, but tablet didin't, and now i can see it, it charges up again)
I do not understand what happend. Point is , im able to use it again.
Thanks for help
Had a weird issue with my S7.
Despite being at 95% battery, the phone suddenly died. Wouldn't turn on at all. As I was near a Best Buy store, I brought it in and they plugged it into a charger. It showed 95% and charging, and they were able to power on the phone. As soon as they removed the charger however, it would shut off again. If they removed the charger during the startup process, the phone would shut off right when the lock screen would normally appear.
Brought the phone home, charged back up to 100% (which took maybe 5 minutes), and everything appears to be working again. The weird thing is that my theme was reset to the default one, and my default keyboard reset itself to the Samsung one.
Not sure what's up... Any ideas?
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Hmmm, seems very strange. I would factory reset and try using it again. Make sure to clear cache before factory reset and afterwards. If you find it reoccurring, definitely take it in for repair or a new one.
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Hello, I am using galaxy S3 stock rom and my phone keeps shutting down/rebooting when I am using it. Sometimes I let it charge and 20 minutes later it turns off and I have to try many times to boot it. Many times I let my phone on airplane mode at night at 53% battery and It drains completely. I tried other batteries but still the same thing. Did anyone ever experience this?
Thanks
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Hello, I am using galaxy S3 stock rom and my phone keeps shutting down/rebooting when I am using it. Sometimes I let it charge and 20 minutes later it turns off and I have to try many times to boot it. Many times I let my phone on airplane mode at night at 53% battery and It drains completely. I tried other batteries but still the same thing. Did anyone ever experience this?
Thanks
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looked here? http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s3
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If you're sure it's not a battery problem, and you've run a battery calibration after backup, factory reset, and restore, just to be completely positive, you might want to see if it is a power button issue. The internals of the button get stuck every so often, and I found that when it was usable, I still got huge battery drain, and sometimes turning off and on by itself. There was a place near me that fixed the button on my S4 mini for $15, worked just like new.
I found that the phone was losing battery when when turned off, try leaving it off overnight and if it drains, it's probably an issue with the button.
If it's just a software problem, then that won't help. What does the OS say is using the battery? Maybe check for wakelocks with a battery saving app, I'm sure someone could recommend something
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If you're sure it's not a battery problem, and you've run a battery calibration after backup, factory reset, and restore, just to be completely positive, you might want to see if it is a power button issue. The internals of the button get stuck every so often, and I found that when it was usable, I still got huge battery drain, and sometimes turning off and on by itself. There was a place near me that fixed the button on my S4 mini for $15, worked just like new.
I found that the phone was losing battery when when turned off, try leaving it off overnight and if it drains, it's probably an issue with the button.
If it's just a software problem, then that won't help. What does the OS say is using the battery? Maybe check for wakelocks with a battery saving app, I'm sure someone could recommend something
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I Just played around with the power button because there was some dust and removed the battery and tried cleaning the metal things. I tried it today and it did not shut down once, i will see how it goes.. :good:
spiritblastt said:
Hello, I am using galaxy S3 stock rom and my phone keeps shutting down/rebooting when I am using it. Sometimes I let it charge and 20 minutes later it turns off and I have to try many times to boot it. Many times I let my phone on airplane mode at night at 53% battery and It drains completely. I tried other batteries but still the same thing. Did anyone ever experience this?
Thanks
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I had a problem which was similar to this but the phone I got is LYF Flame 7.
My phone was automatically shutting down a few minutes after the device is locked, I investigated every setting to check whether anything like auto shutting down or sleep or something was enabled , but every settings were okay but the problem continued.
When I bought this phone, I was disabled a lot of useless stock apps . I re-enabled all these apps to their default and then the problem is solved.
So you just try reverting your apps to their default,if you have tried to disabled it.
Clear its Cache and Misc
Also try a factory reset and try to boot the phone without any SIM cards and SD card.
In my knowledge , I think , the problem of your phone is software related and hardware is okay.
And keep investigating in S3 threads.